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Methods of Canning Human Pus

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Yes, the delightful Encyclopaedia of Hell: An Invasion Manual for Demons Concerning the Planet Earth and the Human Race Which Infests It has just appeared at Feral House hdqts, and will be available to human pus factories within a week or two. Its author, the Lord Satan (transcribed by Martin Olson, this century’s equivalent of [...]

Angie Dickinson Hogtied My Father

Woody and Angie

Lately, we’ve been collating and selecting images for a coming title called Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society, a Visual Guide. This book has strangely become an unexpected lesson in the sado-masochistic rituals practiced in Masonic and other fraternal initiation ceremonies. Several factories manufactured the paraphernalia involved to threaten and humiliate [...]

They call it Gweek

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You know how it works. After every interview you think of a thousand things you wanted to say but got too polite or otherwise sidetracked. BoingBoing.net now has a podcast (“Gweek”) that you can pick up through iTunes or through their site. Yesterday Mark Frauenfelder’s interview with me and Jodi Wille, co-founder of Process Media, [...]

A Mad Book?

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Few of our books come by way of what major publishers call the “slush pile,” or a proposal sent to us by writers, not agents, by mail. But sometimes you’re sent one that captures your attention, and has a particular magic. One submission, from a strikingly intelligent and attractive 22-year-old, told about her fall into [...]

Goodbye HelL.A.

Loki

Los Angeles is a piece of shit. Los Angeles is heaven. I was raised and lived in extremely different areas of that city … the beach, the valley, the inner city. I kept moving away — to San Francisco, New York, Portland — and moving back. My love/hate relationship was diagrammed weekly in a piece [...]

Triscuit and the Home Farming “Movement”

The Parf

When I walked into the QFC chain supermarket this week I saw a large display of Triscuit crackers with a new look that said, “PLANT A SEED / GROW A MOVEMENT” complete with basil seeds implanted on part of the cardboard packaging. Yes, here’s Kraft Foods, the largest confectionary, food and beverage corporation in the [...]

Is That All There Is?

The Parf

Is That All There Is? The big question this Saturday, the 21st of May, is this: who will you be following? Are you going to invest all hope in a wacky church man’s interpretation of New Testament’s Thesallonians, and prepare for a flight to heaven? Or are you going to fall into the sad, hellish [...]

Encyclopaedia of Hell is off to the printer!

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Rejoice, Earthlings! Encyclopaedia of Hell has made its way to the printer, and will be available for purchase around the 1st of July. The demon known as Sean Tejaratchi has been hard at work designing the book’s final front and back cover. Behold: Read more about book’s dire necessity here. If you want to be notified [...]

Announcing FERAL FRIDAY!

The Parf

Yes, today the weekly Feral House column by FH and Process Media prez Adam Parfrey — or “The Parf” —debuts! The Parf has just returned to Feral Acres from the Center of the Universe (New York City), where he announced Feral House and Process Media Fall season titles to the distributor’s sales reps, so they [...]

Encyclopaedia of Hell: You have been warned

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Some months ago, Feral House received a curious package via courier. Inside was a blood-stained letter from one Mr. Nathan Stiles, retired field agent of the Spiritual Security Agency. Mr. Stiles urged us to waste no time in sharing his message: Hell is a real place, populated by demon armies with imminent plans to invade [...]